Re: [PATCH] tmpfs: use ida to get inode number

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 10:23:18PM +0800, zhengbin wrote:
> I have tried to change last_ino type to unsigned long, while this was
> rejected, see details on https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11023915.

Did you end up trying sbitmap?

What I think is fundamentally wrong with this patch is that you've found a
problem in get_next_ino() and decided to use a different scheme for this
one filesystem, leaving every other filesystem which uses get_next_ino()
facing the same problem.

That could be acceptable if you explained why tmpfs is fundamentally
different from all the other filesystems that use get_next_ino(), but
you haven't (and I don't think there is such a difference.  eg pipes,
autofs and ipc mqueue could all have the same problem.

There are some other problems I noticed, but they're not worth bringing
up until this fundamental design choice is justified.